I'm having a weird problem with a Premiere Pro 2.0 project. I made an AMV a few months ago but didn't render out the master because I needed to lip-synch one clip first, and then I got distracted with other things and didn't work on it again until today. Now when I open the project, all the video files are offline, and if I try to link them, I get the error "The selected file could not be linked because its type (video) does not match the original file's type (video and audio)".

It's the same project, on the same computer, with the same files... I don't know why the files would have worked before, but don't work now. I tried looking this up but didn't have any luck. I also tried making an AVS script with a link to the video clip for each clip, and linking to those instead - that works, but the timing of everything is slightly off, and I'd hate to have to fix it clip by clip.

Xvid in .AVI. Not the best source, but it works worked. I installed Media Player Classic Home Cinema a few weeks ago, that's all I can think of.

I opened the Premiere project file in a text editor and found that the project files are actually XML. I tried removing the audio tag from the data block for each video but that just causes Premiere to crash when trying to open the project; I think the corresponding audio data blocks would have to be deleted, but then all of the data blocks in the project file would have to be renumbered, which isn't very practical when there are hundreds of them.

Ya see, I figured, "no one is gonna like this video anyway, why bother putting in the extra effort of doing everything correctly?" (also I'm perpetually out of hard drive space due to Steam). My goal was to spend as little time on it as possible. Le sigh.

Ya see, I figured, "no one is gonna like this video anyway, why bother putting in the extra effort of doing everything correctly?" (also I'm perpetually out of hard drive space due to Steam). My goal was to spend as little time on it as possible. Le sigh.

Thanks, I'll mull my choices over and decide something eventually.

The other option is to frameserve the files in avisynth and then link those into premiere.

Like the AMV .Org App? Think about donating to help me make it better.

Ya see, I figured, "no one is gonna like this video anyway, why bother putting in the extra effort of doing everything correctly?" (also I'm perpetually out of hard drive space due to Steam). My goal was to spend as little time on it as possible. Le sigh.

Thanks, I'll mull my choices over and decide something eventually.

The other option is to frameserve the files in avisynth and then link those into premiere.

Yes, that was what I meant in the second paragraph of the original post. Everything is off by a few frames. Maybe I'll just tweak the scripts doing the frameserving, if the offset is a constant